The legal struggle between crypto exchange Binance and the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) continues. The SEC has accused Binance.US of noncooperation in the ongoing investigation. The agency points out that Binance.US’s holding company, BAM, has produced only 220 documents during the discovery process. Many of those materials “consist of unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures,” the SEC said. The regulator added that BAM has refused to produce essential witnesses for deposition, instead agreeing only to four depositions of witnesses it has unilaterally deemed appropriate.
Meanwhile, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order granting the SEC’s motion to unseal or remove the redaction from 18 sealed documents and another nine partially sealed or redacted documents. The partially sealed documents total 117 pages. Among them are internal Binance.US documents, emails and SEC court filings, including the memorandum on Binance.US’s compliance with SEC discovery efforts.
Amid lawsuits from the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Binance.US announced that it was laying off a third of its staff, with its president and CEO Brian Shroder also departing the firm. Later, an additional two executive departures were reported as both head of legal Krishna Juvvadi and chief risk officer Sidney Majalya decided to quit the company.
As a result of the tumult, trading activity on Binance.US has tumbled to new lows in September. The lowest point hit by trading activity in the month was $2.97 million, a significant drop compared to the same period in 2022 when the trading volume was around $230 million.
No crypto ban in India as the nation works on legislation
India is working on a crypto regulatory framework based on the joint recommendations of the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board that could result in legal legislation in the next five to six months. Sidharth Sogani, the CEO of a blockchain analytic firm that offered consulting services to several G20 committees and nations, told Cointelegraph that India is currently working on a five-point regulatory approach focusing on global collaboration on certain aspects, such as crypto taxation.
EU lawmakers vote for a crypto tax reporting rule
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